He thinks being overtly disrespectful and hostile is a negotiating tactic and cannot understand that all the military alliances and trade deals (some of which are his own doing!) that he is blowing up to "make America great again", are the exact soft power arrangements that made America the wealthiest nation in human history in the first place.
It's the same shit as seeing no measles or polio around, and deciding that we don't need those vaccines anymore. Or seeing clean water and air, and deciding we don't actually need the EPA rules anymore.
Anything done by someone else is bad and dumb, because it wasn't Don's idea and therefore cannot be as good as whatever he just thought in that moment.
Joe relied on actual qualified experts and knew that a negotiation was more than threatening someone with tariffs if they didn't give you everything and they got nothing.
Yes. He sees the world in the same terms as the 1980s Manhattan real estate market. Everything is zero sum with a winner and a loser, and he thinks anything short of the world lining up to suck his dick is losing.
For the West the US was like the big brother you could look up to. He was brave, a proper leader, heroic, helpful, not perfect but we liked him anyway.
Now big brother turned into a drug addict. He constantly hits his wife, cheats on her and starts threatening his little brother for no good reason.
Little brother is rather sad about it but realizes its time to grow up himself and not be reliant on old bro anymore.
One has to wonder if big brother will ever recover, i cant imagine this government not trying to massively manipulate the next elections and turn the US into China/Russia.
Yes it’s sad how far the US has fallen. Only silver lining is that If Germany was able to recover and get back to being a functional democracy after WW2 I’d imagine there is a path back to normalcy.
Even if the US recovers, our constitutional system of 4 year terms means the rest of the world can never be sure that we aren't just 4 years away from electing another batshit crazy arsonist.
They will never trust any US military or trade deal ever again, because unlike the past when presidents largely upheld these deals made before they took office, now half of our voters have shown they will elect idiots who will shred every single one of them. Why buy military equipment from US manufacturers, if that means you are now subject to possibly a crazy asshole using that as leverage to deny you the ability to maintain and repair them unless you give him what he wants? Why make any trade deal with the US, if you are possibly just 4 years away from the next guy tearing it up and attempting to tank your own economy as leverage to get what he wants?
Even if by some miracle MAGA overplays its hand to the point it is eliminated by 2030, the world will never trust the US ever again. It's already over. It takes decades to build something as great as the massive soft and hard power the US enjoyed from post-WW2 to the 2010s. It only takes a couple months or years to destroy all of it.
Yeah nah from Australia. The US has until now been an ally. Never looked up to anybody let alone the 'Showboat' US. Tolerated is a more fitting description.
I heard someone on NPR earlier this week say that Biden operated like a Senate dealmaker, whereas Trump is obviously a showman. If you're a dumbfuck, the latter looks waaayyy better. But even a dumbfuck is going to be able to see what Trump's policies do to the average American this time. I have zero concern about Trump trying to stay in office past his term, because even his own buttlickers are going to be ready to run him out of town on a rail by that point.
Joe wasn’t a rock star or ideologue and that’s what made him great. He just put the best people to the job and listened to them. That’s all you really need.
I think it's time we as a nation realize that career politians are needed because they actually know how to grease the gears, unlike reality tv stars and Fox News hosts. Maybe the highest level of goverment should be run by people who have...you know...worked in goverment for decades.
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u/bluelifesacrifice 8d ago
Sleepy Dementia Joe seemed a lot better than anyone on Trumps team.
The Trump administration can't even manage a simple negotiation with Canada. Joe seemed to handle problems rather effortlessly.